St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minneapolis, MN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foshay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rhinoceros. A Cleveland rhino.

 

 

MSP is a city where I can get behind the skywalk idea.  I was there in December a couple of years ago, and between the bitter winds knifing through the streets and the snow piled up on curbs and sidewalks, it was not a pleasant time to be outside.  Then we found the skywalks and I nodded to myself in approval.  It's the same with Duluth - I found out the campus of UMD is almost entirely connected by tunnels.  Seems so intuitive.

 

Those are both also cities where the other three seasons are so agreeable I doubt people use the skywalks/tunnels except in the winter.  Few worries about people avoiding the street-level businesses to take the quick way across the street.

They're almost Canadian, in a way.  As if Winnipeg grew up.

nice. i can't help but imagine it was a pretty bland place until uncle sam brought in the vietnamese/hmong and then later the somalis.

 

i think you can go up in the dome of the capital and look out over the horses at st paul. i wanna do that next time.